“Federal labor officials accused the rocket company SpaceX on of illegally firing 8 employees for circulating a letter critical of #Musk.
According to a complaint, the company fired the employees in 2022 for calling on SpaceX to distance itself from social media comments by Musk, including one in which he mocked sexual harassment accusations against him”
A federal court in California is enforcing a subpoena for Elon #Musk to testify before the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding potential violations of securities laws in connection with his purchase of #Twitter. #legal
1/9 Mastodon (oui, je dis Mastodon, leave me alone) n’est manifestement pas une alternative à #Twitter. Pratiquement tous les « gros » comptes qui ont débarqué ici avec plus ou moins de fracas sont repartis prêter allégeance à #Musk, la queue entre les jambes.
“Elon #Musk’s X Corp., the parent company of the platform formerly known as #Twitter, on Friday sued #California’s attorney general over the state’s new content moderation law.
X, Elon Musk’s social media platform formerly known as Twitter, is attempting to limit its users’ access to The New York Times.
While the New York Times may be throttled, Aure Free Press, which resides on Mastodon, AND is free, AND has no ads, is available to the ENTIRE Mastodon Community!
Elon #Musk Hit With Lawsuit For Falsely Accusing Man Of Being Part Of Neo-Nazi Brawl
Ben Brody, 22, said he was forced to leave his home after Musk falsely accused him of being a federal agent pretending to be a neo-Nazi. https://apple.news/AHRLGqdbfQlyPcYqcSG9rQQ
#X/ #Twitter May Lose Up to $75 Million in Revenue as More Advertisers Pull Out
Internal documents show companies like Airbnb, Coca-Cola and Microsoft have halted ads, or are at risk of doing so, after Elon #Musk’s endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
"Elon #Musk's X is throttling traffic to websites he dislikes
The site formerly known as #Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times, Facebook and other sites Musk commonly attacks, a Washington Post analysis found"
I think we're all, me included, focusing too much on #Musk and his destroying #Twitter and not enough on the people who financed his purchase of it in the first place.
Peter Thiel, who openly states democracy is not a viable form of government in his mind, bankrolled this despite knowing Musk is a hack.
In fact, Musk's first big cash gain was Thiel paying Musk to leave PayPal lest he, Musk, destroy it with his terrible ideas, especially his fixation on an "X" app.
"#Twitter/#X lost bid to block #California content moderation law, w federal judge dismissing challenge
X claimed CA law violated its free speech rights by requiring it to publicly post its policies, report data on hate speech, disinfo, harassment & extremism online
A staggering 1,500 animals died between 2017 and 2020 during testing for Elon Musk's controversial brain chip Neuralink, documents released by the University of California, Davis reveal – and some met truly horrific ends #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#Musk#Twitter#Mastodon
"The lawyers who voided Elon #Musk's $56 billion compensation as excessive on Friday sought a record a $6 billion legal fee, payable in the electric car maker's stock.
"We recognize that the requested fee is unprecedented in terms of absolute size," the three law firms said in a filing with the Court of Chancery in Delaware.
The fee works out to an hourly rate of $288,888, they said." #Tesla
"The first invasive brain chip that Neuralink embedded into a human brain has malfunctioned, with neuron-surveilling threads appearing to have become dislodged from the participant's brain, the company revealed in a blog post Wednesday." #Musk
As false war information spreads on X, Musk promotes unvetted accounts (www.washingtonpost.com)
From the article:...
Elon Musk likes to think he saved us from Armageddon. He’s just brought it closer | Timothy Snyder (www.theguardian.com)
Whatever his new biography says, by giving into Russia’s nuclear blackmail the X boss can only encourage more threats from Putin